Ok, but......

This presentation on the history of the Roman Catholic Church was ok, however, it seems to have been whitewashed and neglected historical facts for popular myth in some areas. For example, some key historical Protestant figures were/are presented as being relatively benign and justified in their causes (implicitly) without fully expounding the dark sides of their nature. Martin Luther was vile, vengeful, and hateful....for his time (not to mention ours). In 1511 he visited Rome on Monastic business, but he did not lose his faith because of any abuses he saw there. He returned to Germany as strong in his Catholic faith as he had been prior to his visit. It was only years later, after he had been excommunicated from the Church, that he wrote to say he had found Rome "a sink of iniquity, its priests infidels, the Papal courtiers men of shameless lives," and that his reverence for Rome had been turned into loathing. But he was interpreting an earlier state of mind in the light of subsequent prejudices. In reality, letters written by Luther after his return from Rome speak of the Pope with the utmost respect. His “Against the Murderous, Thieving Hordes of Peasants", in which he called on the nobility to suppress the rebellion (a.k.a The Peasants Revolt) with all necessary violence, which they did with ferocious efficiency, killing 100,000. He married a nun whom he helped "escape" from a monastery. Several years later Luther’s break with Christian teaching on marriage was made complete when he advised Philip, landgrave of Hesse, that he could enter into a bigamous marriage so long as he kept it secret. When word of it leaked out, Luther advised Philip to deny it, writing, “What harm is there in telling a good bold lie for the sake of making things better and for the good of the Christian Church?” Not to mention his utter hatred and support of Jewish ethnic cleansing. For a founder of a religion, basing his split from the Catholic Church due to Church corruption, that is hardly virtuous living and puts into question whether he started a Protestant revolt as opposed to reformation.
John Calvin was another gem. The death penalty was prescribed for adultery, blasphemy, idolatry, pregnancy out of wedlock, and striking a parent. It was also against the law in Calvinist Geneva to dance, sing (outside of church services), stage or attend theatrical plays, wear jewelry, or play cards or dice. He also had rival Protestants murdered like Michael Servetus when he visited Geneva. “If he [Servetus] comes [to Geneva], I will never let him depart alive.”
"Bloody Mary" Queen of Scots hardly deserved that title. Less than 300 Protestants revolutionaries bent on her overthrow were arrested, tried as heretics and executed for crimes against the crown.
However, Elizabeth I, who ushered in the first state-sponsored persecution of the Catholic Church in Europe since the Roman Empire, was mentioned as following after "Bloody Mary" but this horrible event was not.

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